LETTER TO THE EDITOR: New Year predictions

Thursday

Jan 12, 2017 at 3:00 AM

The first telling action the 2017 Republican Congress took was trying to gut the independent ethics committee. Here are my New Year predictions for other disgusting action from the coming administration.

Like past Republicans, they will mess up more things over "HUGELY" and then the country will elect Democrats to clean up the mess.

Military people who voted for Trump will see him and his fellow draft-dodging cronies cut benefits and privatize the rest of what was promised to the people who actually served our country. Seniors will see their Social Security and Medicare benefits “privatized” into oblivion, too. Poor people will see their health and food subsidies removed, because conservative pro-lifers view children out of the womb and their parents as parasites sucking on the government's teat.

Trump appointed “swamp” creatures to posts within his cabinet, and our environment, education, financial, food and drug protections all will deteriorate. At some point the people who voted for Trump will realize Russia and the KKK got the President they wanted but the majority of voters didn't.

Even his impeachment won't help unless voting rights are restored and non-gerrymandered state elections are held.